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The Effects of School Library Personnel on Students’ Reading Behaviors in Korea

  • Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
  • Abbr : JKLISS
  • 2018, 49(1), pp.123-147
  • DOI : 10.16981/kliss.49.1.201803.123
  • Publisher : Korean Library And Information Science Society
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science
  • Received : February 5, 2018
  • Accepted : March 18, 2018

Park Joo-hyeon 1 Byun,Woo-Yeol 2

1University of Missouri
2공주대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to identify the effects of school library personnel on students' reading behaviors and to identify differences between schools on it. For this purpose, this study surveyed 5,349 elementary, middle and high school students from 154 schools across Korea, and conducted a survey on reading environment, school library, and DLS. The results of the analysis showed that the students at the school where teacher librarians works are more likely to read books, participate in various reading programs, receive more help from teacher librarians in selecting books to read, lending more books, have more experience with DLS and satisfaction with it. The differences between the schools were in the order of ‘classes which school library personnel took part in,’ ‘number of borrowed books,’ ‘help in selecting books,’ ‘average reading time per day,’ ‘number of home books,’ ‘reading in school library.’ Therefore, it is necessary to expand the placement of school library personnel and develop their professionalism in order to prevent inequality in the educational environment between schools.

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